sixty-three now and a worker in stone since he was fifteen, has a cramped little finger from using the mechanical drills. His brother, still older, is up at the church now, doing over some fig- ures according to changes suggested by Mrs. Rockefeller. The other Don- nelly is John, Jr. From the first the Rockefellers were interested in the carving, dropping in at the studio to go over models and visiting the church to see the stone-men at work. They were particularly concerned about a panel over the chapel door 1 e a din g to Riverside Drive. The carvings were to be suggestive of motherhood, and the problem was to do this without bringing in the Virgin and Child, a Ca- tholic motif. Incorporat- ing the idea in a Gothic edifice was difficult, but the Donnellys worked out a sort of frieze somewhat like the old "bridge of life," showing a mother and child throughout the latter's development, up to marrIage. The Donnelly studio is bar n I i k e and cluttery -half-finished Mercurys, saints, models. One mod- el, quarter-size, is of the group surrounding the Grand Central clock. Un- til recently a model of the Wool worth Building, sev- enteen feet tall, took up a lot of room. It had been order d by a Berlin mu- seum just before the war. It was interned until late- ly, when France claimed it under some clause in the Versailles Treaty. The Donnell ys were glad it went, as it made space for another model upon which they are working, one ordered by Benno Janssen, the Pittsburgh architect. It's something like a Grecian temple with a sort of peristyle arrangement all around, containing hundreds of columns. Very painstaking work, and nobody here knows what it is for. Mr. THE NEW YORKER 15 Janssen, when he sent in the specifica- tions" didn't say. snatch of conversation between two patrolmen stationed in the Mall. One was mumbling something, when the other cut him short. "Aw, where do you get off to kick?" he expostulated bitterly. "This here is the thoid one of these concerts I've had to listen to, one right after the other." -THE NEW YORKERS Music Obligatory T HE Central Park band concerts, those hot August nights, were a boon to some but not to all. During the last one a passerby overheard a J 'V . .- '- > . ............... .' q :t;--;',, ,,- , ' ., iÎ :: ,f ., "" ,:: ;';,=2 .. '.......... y' "..f< ';"'- \'- ((Madan 's sun bath is ready."